revenance_rpg | Alone in the Darkness

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Alone in the Darkness

Who: Roxas, Emizel, and whoever dares enter Twilight Town
What: Experimenting with nightmares. For Science.
Where: Twilight Town
When: Sometime after the dreams start
Warnings: Copious amount of nightmares, Roxas's Hayner-worthy idea, and potential yelling.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

At least, that's Roxas's rational. Emizel had been worried that if they defeated all the nightmares, he'd be in trouble, so what better way to test if there was a connection than if they could get a lot of nightmares.

The plan was simple. Get treats, and then get the nightmares to follow them to a location, see if Emizel felt more energetic, and then fight off the nightmares before it got out of hand.

Roxas supposed he underestimated how many nightmares they could summon with a few treats, but they could manage, right? It's not like there were any big ones or anything.

They'd be fine.

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Roxas had severely underestimated the lure that a couple treats represented. It seemed that, deep down, Nightmares were just like spirits and wanted to be spoiled. They were just a lot more violent in showing it.

Roxas never thought he'd be thankful for the baleful looks and excessive amounts of drool.

He threw Oathkeeper like a boomerang to get rid of some komory bats while swinging wildly with Oblivion, before noticing Kanji. A well timed fire spell takes out the nightmare and Roxas darted over.

"You okay?"

If there're no sweet dreams for them, perhaps they're going for whatever sweets they can find?

Kanji had barely managed to ready his shield - ready it by his standards, at least, holding the rim ready to swing it - before the Nightmares started to head his way. The fireball was definitely a welcome sight. He smiled with relief.

"Yeah, I'm fine... Thanks, man. Nice shot."

Roxas shrugged.

"No problem. Sorry, there's a lot of nightmares out here today, so be careful," he explained, looking around for any more that might have gotten away, but it looked like his spirits had it under control.

"I'm trying to clean them up though."

"Guess I didn't pick a good day to come lookin', huh." He scratches his head. Well... he's here, now.

"So when you say there's a lot of 'em... how many d'you mean?" Is he going to have to start kicking some Nightmare ass around here, too?

"Enough that it's kinda hard to wander around the town. They're kinda showing up everywhere rather than specific spots like usual."

The only reason Roxas had for that theory was that they were looking for treats.

"Huh. Gotcha." Kanji nods, and pauses. Something occurs to him. "You look like a pro at this stuff, though, man. Dealt with a lot of 'em?"

"Sort of. In the waking world, there's creatures like them. It was kinda my job to fight them," Roxas replied, with a shrug. Nightmares, heartless, there wasn't really a huge difference. They attacked in mobs and were annoying, simple as that.

Wait a second.
Wait a second.
That gets a hell of a surprised look from Kanji.

"It was? I mean - damn." He laughs, a spot awkwardly. How's he supposed to deal with a revelation like that? It takes him a moment, but eventually, he gets the words out-

"...I thought we were the only ones. Uh, it wasn't my job, but ... it was kinda something I had t' do. "

Edited 2014-01-27 09:23 (UTC)

Roxas gives him a weird look.

"What do you mean? Were you fighting heartless to?"

It couldn't have been nighmares, since they seemed to be pretty specific to the dream world. And heartless were pretty common in his experience, limited that it was. Granted, he hadn't really asked about the other worlds.

"Heartless?" Has he heard that term checking the network at all? He's not sure - but it's meaningless, anyway.

It feels strange admitting to these things. But - he might as well be in the TV in this world. No reason it wouldn't be believed.

"Nah. These things called Shadows."

"They don't look like black bugs with yellow eyes, do they? Because there are heartless called shadows."

Bouncer pawed at Roxas's leg. Person, I think more nightmares are coming, but Roxas was a little distracted by the conversation.

Kanji shakes his head. "They come in all shapes 'n sizes, but I ain't seen anything like that."

His own Dream Eater's dashing around trying to see if it can tell what's going on.

Roxas nods, looking down to see what his Meow Wow wants, before looking over to see the approaching nightmares.

"Well, now's your chance to."

"Huh? I thought it was just Nightmares around here..."

All the same, Kanji's bracing himself, shield ready to swing.

"Hope you know how to use that thing," Roxas replied, before launching a blizzard spell at an incoming Toximander. He wasn't sure how good a weapon a shield was, but as long as it did the trick, he wasn't going to complain.

"Don't worry 'bout me," he replies.

Know how to use it? By any successful shield-user's standards, Kanji doesn't. He's using the thing as a blunt instrument, gripping it at the top and swinging it viciously. Still, it's not like the Tama Sheep he just smashed into is going to argue the point.

Edited (First, fix the icon. Then, spot actual mistake. Doh.) 2014-01-31 10:59 (UTC)

As long as he takes out the nightmares, Roxas doesn't really care how he uses it. After all, he fights with a pair of giant keys.

"I won't, unless you need to be healed. I can take care of that."

And now Kanji's getting a better view of the things - okay, he'd heard the term 'keyblade' before, but he hadn't thought that it was quite so ... literal. Huh.

"Alright, man - yaah! Come 'n get some!" he shouts at the Nightmares, charging forward.

[ooc: timeskip to after the fight?]

((If you want? If it's just small Dream Eaters...))

[ooc: That's what I figured.]

Roxas breathed a sigh of relief as his last toximander went down with a fireball. That hadn't been the biggest group of Nightmares, so Roxas could only hope they were starting to thin out.

He turned to check on Kanji.

"Damn."

That'd been quite the workout. Kanji's shield was resting against a wall as he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"Persistent little things, ain't they?" Perhaps an understatement on his part. He'd been knocked over at least once, but managed to keep his momentum through it.

"Yeah, they don't really stop," Roxas replied, leaning against the wall. "Are they like that in your world...the monsters you fight?"

He fished in his pocket for a potion and offered it to Kanji.

"Eh... close." Not so damn cute, though, admittedly - as much as he couldn't really pay attention to that detail when the things were trying to eat him. He accepted the potion, looking it over- "What's this for, man?"

Edited 2014-02-04 11:32 (UTC)

"It's a potion. It'll restore your health, if you need it. They're pretty useful things to carry if you're fighting nightmares," Roxas explained.

It was hard to remember that some worlds didn't have magic.

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